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[nny]

I've been looking for Icarus related things. I love the story and I love the potential for images, but I keep finding so much that just... isn't what I want. There's entirely too much that's NOBLE and HEROIC in the art, and that's not it at all.

Some of the ones I've collected together that I liked, pasted straight from notepad:

http://harusami.com/war_peace/zoom/icarus.jpg 'Icarus' by Sember Weinman

http://thorg.chattablogs.com/images/icarus.jpg

http://www.outofrange.net/blogarchive/archives/Draper_Herbert_James_Mourning_for_Icarus.jpg

http://www.cbreaksculpturepark.com.au/images/Icarus-007.jpg

http://personal.stevens.edu/~ashapiro/Icarus%20A.jpg

http://webs.wichita.edu/depttools/depttoolsmemberfiles/mark2/icarus.gif

http://www.crosslink.net/~stodart/giclee%20pics%20/Icarus-redifined.jpg <--- Lewis Thompson

http://www.torontoartexpo.com/gallery/2006/Feldman_Stanley/StanleyFeldman_Icarus4.jpg <--- Stanley Feldman

http://ramastom.free.fr/photos/the-fall-of-icarus.jpg

http://www.sandovalsignpost.com/jan04/assets/images/1_Icarus.jpg

Basically? From google image search. This is my knowledge of art. ¬_¬ I like offbeat representations and emphasis on the humanity, I think. I'm not sure. I'm only good at talking about art in person, when I know no one can look back at what I say later and laugh. :D

Can anyone recommend me artists? I don't necessarily want Icarus stuff, just... no, wait. Second thoughts. Don't recommend, just tell me what you like and why. A piece or a movement or an artist, and why it moves you. Please?

Comments

[sophistry]

Because it blurs the line between man and myth and god, just as it should; bring me that horizon.

Because of lines and curves, opposed and harmonious, and the way it fills space; because it's grand, and proud, and touchingly imperfect.

Because of such great heights; because it's identity and history set in stone; because it's still here; because we'll never truly capture it again.

Because it's more than a postcard; Because you have to be there, and I can't explain it any better than that.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Your classicism fills me with quiet, peaceful happiness.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

I'm going to add a much more shallow comment:

this sculpture (http://www.theplatelady.com/figurines3/6444-wrestlers.jpg).

Because the moment I saw it in a (now-gone) favourite store, I thought it was alluring. It's so physical (http://www.theplatelady.com/figurines3/6444-wrestlers.jpg). It set all my slash alarms ringing. And it's the first slash-suggestive artwork I ever seriously considered buying, because it's not actually sensual, only sensuous. The allure and the backstory and the alternative interpretations are all in my head. I like it in no small part because of that -- because the moment I saw it, ideas and stories started creeping into my brain.